Letter from Daniel Foster, Harwich, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1852 August 11

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Title:
Letter from Daniel Foster, Harwich, [Massachusetts], to Samuel May, 1852 August 11
Description:
Daniel Foster writes to Samuel May explaining his financial account, promising on his "return to Boston I will make all right ..." He tells May that he couldn't give his money to Wallcut while he was in Boston because the office was closed and he thought "it would not matter much if I waited until my return from this trip." Foster then states he plans to spend 3 days in Sandwich and asks May to send him next to Falmouth, telling May that his wife was born there and "has many friends there who would be attracted to hear me. They might be converted thusly." He also offers to lecture another week in Cape Cod before he wishes to return home. In the postscript, Foster says that, "After a few days at home I should be glad to go out on a tour when the society might see fit to send me ..." Although he expects his work with the society to end at the close of the month, he offers "to continue to serve them for such recompense as they may deem right & just."
Author:
Foster, Daniel, 1816-1864
Addressee:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:
August 11, 1852
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Social reformers--United States
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Foster, Daniel, 1816-1864
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110v08m
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Place of origin:
Harwich, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, under the letter from Daniel Foster to Samuel May, Francis Jackson Garrison has added a note stating that Foster "became a chaplain in the U.S. Army during the civil war, & was killed in battle."
Identifier:
5977478
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.21, p.67
Barcode:
39999085846689